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""Lenormant Athena," 41 cm Marble Copy of Athena Parthenos of Phidias, 1st C. AD"

https://allthatsinteresting.com/gorgons

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The Horrifying Story Of The Gorgons, the Snake-Haired Monsters From Ancient Greek Legend

"According to Greek myth, three monstrous sisters named Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale lived "beyond glorious Ocean in the frontier land towards Night" — and they could turn men to stone with a single look."

By Andrew Milne

Painting of the head of Medusa by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1597)

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New #art post (subscribers only): Bestiary Cranes. https://www.patreon.com/posts/bestiary-cranes-138517766

Black ink, colored pencil and oil pastel on dot paper. I love the bestiary. I love it to pieces.

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Extreme closeup of the image described in the post, showing part of the crane's head and some leaves of the tree it's standing next to, on a smudgy background.

https://www.thecollector.com/mythical-figures-chemical-elements/

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10 Mythological Figures With Chemical Elements Named After Them
Get to know ten mythological figures who have had a chemical element named after them.

by Elizabeth Morgan

Mythology at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1097

Dmitri Mendeleev 1869-periodic-table - An experiment on a system of elements based on their atomic weights and chemical similarities.

In this early system, Mendeleev organized elements by their atomic weights while grouping them according to chemical similarities. The table is handwritten, with the symbols of elements placed in rows and columns that reveal repeating patterns of properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table#/media/File:1869-periodic-table.jpg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14417

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Clytemnestra, in Greek mythology, was the wife of Agamemnon, and the half-sister of Helen of Troy.

In Aeschylus' Oresteia, she murders Agamemnon – said by Euripides to be her second husband – and the Trojan princess Cassandra, whom Agamemnon had taken as a war prize following the sack of Troy; however, in Homer's Odyssey, her role in Agamemnon's death is unclear and her character is significantly more subdued.

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1728

Clytemnestra by John Collier, 1882..

Classic artwork featuring a woman with long hair holding a large axe.

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🪄Artist: #L7Matrix in City: #Dundalk /15 Park St, Townparks Ireland 🇮🇪 06/2024 - Title: "Morrigan" Great Queen - #Art #Streetart #Mural #UrbanArt #Artist #Mythology #Legends #Goddess

Streetartwall. A dynamically designed mural of an Irish legendary figure has been sprayed/painted on the outside wall of a single-storey old pub. The background is in gray. A ghostly woman is depicted from the side as she is surrounded by a swirl of color. Only her mouth and nose are clearly visible, the rest of the silhouette disappears in energetically sprayed strips of color and small swirls of paint. The wild drawing shows "Morrigan", a kind of goddess of war. She incites the warriors to fight and can help them to defeat their enemies. She can transform herself into a crow, and the mural is intended to show this moment of her transformation from her human form into the misty shape of a crow.

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In Mesopotamian mythology, the demigod King Gilgamesh was a tyrant, so the gods sent the wild man Enkidu to defeat him. Though Gilgamesh won, he was impressed by Enkidu's strength and tenacity. Because of his love for the wild man, Gilgamesh became a good king.
🎨 Ludmila Zeman

Enkidu and Gilgamesh embrace. A picture by Ludmila Zeman.

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Today is #Kalevala day.

As such, I thought it would share my Kalevala-themed #linocut prints from 2020.
There's the swan of Tuonela, who swims on the black river, which is the gateway to the world of the dead.
There's Otso, the bear king of the forest.
And there's Ikiturso, a mythological sea monster.
#printmaking #mythology #MastoArt

A print with bold lines. There's a squidlike giant monster splashing around in a stormy sea

A print of a serious-looking bear. He's wearing a crown, which hovers over his head. It's a portrait from shoulders up.

A white swan on a black water surface. Its reflection is skeletal.

https://www.thecollector.com/myths-about-artemis-greek-goddess/

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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Artemis

Fascinating stories about the goddess Artemis from Greek myth. The twin sister of Apollo, the chaste goddess, represents the wild wilderness and the hunt.

by Daniel Soulard

There are two interesting books about Artemis at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14576
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9283

Scene from sacrifice in honour of Artemis-Diana who is accompanied by a deer. Fresco from the triclinium of the house of Vettii in Pompeii, Italy, between 62 CE and 79 CE (Destruction of Pompeii).

An ancient Fourth-Pompeian-Style Roman wall painting depicting a scene of sacrifice in honor of the goddess Diana; she is seen here accompanied by a deer. The fresco was discovered in the triclinium of House of the Vettii in Pompeii, Italy.

As with the other frescoes in this house, the painting dates between the time of the earthquake of Pompeii in 62 AD and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD that destroyed Pompeii, killing its inhabitants, but preserved many ancient works of art.

https://www.thecollector.com/anubis-egyptian-god-underworld/

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Anubis: The Secrets of the Egyptian God of the Underworld

by Heather Reilly

#history #mythology #egyptology

#mythology #funny #dogs #puppy

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Cerberus as a puppy, guarding the gates of heck
Picture of a wooden wall with a hole cut out and three white puppies sticking out their heads, only two paws showing, which makes them look like a three headed puppy.

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/slaying-myths-st-george-and-dragon

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Slaying Myths: England and St George (from the archives)

St George only become popular in England in the 15th century.

St. George and the Dragon
by Francesco Salviati

#britishhistory #history #mythology

"St. George and the Dragon, c. 1530s. Francesco Salviati (Italian, 1510–1563). Black chalk with red chalk, stumped; sheet: 30.3 x 43.2 cm (11 15/16 x 17 in.); secondary support: 43.3 x 55.1 cm (17 1/16 x 21 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1992.60

According to a legend based on Greek myth, as Saint George passed
through Libya, he rescued a king’s daughter who had been left as a
sacrifice to placate a vicious dragon. In gratitude for being delivered
from the monster’s tyranny, the king’s subjects converted to Christianity.
Here George wears armor in the ancient style based on Roman sculpture.
Classical armor in Renaissance art was reserved for elite male subjects
as a sign of their virtue. As a military saint, George’s attire conveys
his antiquity as an early Christian hero (died about
AD 303), conferring on him a sense of Roman authority and gravity." - From Internet Archive

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120d

Do you like mermen? Do you like GAY mermen? Milky Sea is about young sea god Nerites cheating on his boyfriend Poseidon with the literal Sun.
You get the uncensored illustration when you buy the story.
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Electra in Greek Tragedy: Sophocles vs. Euripides

The tragic character of Electra—a mythical princess of Argos—reappears in mythology time and time again, notably in the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides.

By Laken Bonatch

https://www.thecollector.com/electra-greek-tragedy-sophocles-euripides/

Electra at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=electra

#ancient_history #mythology

Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon, Frederic Leighton c. 1869.

Electra stands at the tomb, her body draped in dark, flowing robes, a stark contrast against the pale stone of the grave. She is depicted in the act of mourning, praying, or calling upon the gods or spirits of the dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra#/media/File:1869_Frederic_Leighton_-_Electra_at_the_Tomb_of_Agamemnon.jpg

https://www.thecollector.com/circe-the-odyssey-enchantress/

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Circe in The Odyssey: The Enchantress Who Defied a Hero

A goddess, a witch, a sorceress—Circe in The Odyssey has been called many things.

By Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

The Odyssey at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727

Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus by John William Waterhouse.

The painting depicts the enchantress Circe, seated regally on a golden throne, clad in a flowing, deep-blue gown. She holds a golden cup aloft in her right hand, offering it to Odysseus, whom she has attempted to seduce and enchant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe#/media/File:Circe_Offering_the_Cup_to_Odysseus.jpg

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/

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Ye think thon wes the end?
Yon meetin in the wuids
When Thracian Orpheus heard the drum, the cries,
The whud o the bacchantes’ thrangan feet…

—“Orpheus”, by Tom Scott (1918–1995), born #OTD, 6 June
Published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS

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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #20thcentury #Mythology #GreekMythology

Tom Scott
Orpheus

Ye think thon wes the end?
Yon meetin in the wuids
When Thracian Orpheus heard the drum, the cries,
The whud o the bacchantes’ thrangan feet
And, seik in saul,
Mad to be jyned for aye to his Eurydikee,
Strung his harp
And gaed to meet them wi a sang.
Ye think thon wes the end?

Na. Eftir the thrang breeled on, red
Fingert, bluidie-mawed, the riven limbs
Quiveran aye amang the mairtyred gress,
There wes a lull
And throu it syne a roun
And syne as muckle’s a moan
And syne a voice,
Yon voice o his
That quietit the forest and its fowk,
That reconcilit lion and lamb,
Ordert the rain,
Spoke frae the grund
And threept in the greitan tree
‘Euridikee! Euridikee!’

And at the name
A ferlie thing wes duin.
Thir broken bits o bodie, bits o bane,
Brisket, gash, airm and droukit hair
Cam thegither as gin some will
Mair nor the merely real
Had wrocht on them.
And on yon slauchtert grund was formed
Orpheus anew,
Orpheus the singer, Orpheus the makar,
Orpheus cleansed o the auld despair.
And by the halie tree
In the leaman licht o the wuid,
Squired by a houlet, a hawk and a doo,
Wes his Euridikee.

They say he made a new sang,
A nobler nor the auld,
And sings it aye in the great haa o the warld.

They say it will nevir end.

https://eroticmythology.com/fiction-herakles-omphale-trans-mtf?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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New story up sponsored by my subs: #Herakles discovers that she is a #trans woman when Queen Omphale makes her wear female clothes.

Happy Pride!

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Finding Briseis: On Resurrecting a Forgotten Woman from Homer’s Iliad

Emily Hauser Explores Ancient Greek Visions of Gender

https://lithub.com/finding-briseis-on-resurrecting-a-forgotten-woman-from-homers-iliad/

The Iliad at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6130

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Do you think shapeshifters are hot? Do you like #NorseMythology? Fertility deities Freyr and Freyja seduce local troublemaker Loki to a shapeshifting threesome! What's hotter, Freyja's girl-cock or Loki's boy-pussy?

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Cover image of "The Perks of Being a Shapeshifter" depicting Freyja and Freyr, two fair-haired, muscular deities, holding up a horned Loki between them. The naughty bits are censored by a rainbow banner running over it with the title "The Perks of Being A Shapeshifter" and the subtitle "A Norse Bisexual Threesome" on it. The author's name, Aimée Maroux, is placed in the top right corner with three hearts in the colours of the bisexual pride flag below it.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/arachne

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Inside The Myth Of Arachne, The Talented Weaver Who Is Turned Into A Spider By The Goddess Athena

"After Arachne beat Athena at a weaving contest, the goddess punished the mortal girl by turning her into a spider and forcing her to weave for all eternity."

By Genevieve Carlton

Shows Arachne as she turns into a spider. Her upper body is still human,
but on her lower body she had six spider legs.